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10-letter words containing s, a, b, u

  • behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
  • belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
  • belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
  • binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
  • bipetalous — having two petals
  • bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
  • black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
  • blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
  • blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
  • blue flash — green flash.
  • blue jeans — Blue jeans are the same as jeans.
  • blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
  • blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
  • blue state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
  • bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
  • bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
  • blues band — a band that plays the blues
  • boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
  • bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
  • bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
  • bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
  • bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
  • bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
  • brontosaur — apatosaurus
  • brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
  • brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • bubs grade — a baby
  • bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
  • buffo bass — (in Italian opera of the 18th century) a bass singer who performs such a comic part
  • bulbaceous — bulbous
  • bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
  • bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
  • bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
  • burst page — banner
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
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